Preyer / Bös Borderlines in a Globalized World

New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System
2002
ISBN: 978-94-017-0940-8
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 241 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Social Indicators Research Series

Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preyer, G.

Bös, Mathias

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective; I: Reconceptionalizations of theGlobal: Borderlines in the World-System. The Continual Reconstruction of Multiple Modern Civilizations and Collective Identities; Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective; World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Incorporation and Resistance to State Expansion; After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism; II: Defining Borderlinesin the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships. Globalization and the Evolution of Membership; Enacting Globalization - Transnational Networks and the Deterritorialisation of Social Relationship; Immigration and the Open Society: The Normative Patterns of Membership in the Nation State; A Transformation of National Identity? Refugees and German Society after World War II; III: The Global and theLocal: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines. The Collapse of the Moral Boundaries of Peripherial Countries; Beyond `East' and `West'. On the European and Global Dimensions of the Fall of Communism; Socioeconomic Restructurings of the Local Settings in the Era of Globalization; Index. Contributors.